Recently I have upgraded to Fedora Core 6/X.org 7.1 and in KDE 3.5.4/3.5.5 all global shortcuts with Win key no longer work. It seems like X.org cannot pass to KDE Win key being pressed together with any other key simultaneously. Everything works OK in Fedora Core 5/X.org 7.0.
It looks like X.org cannot find some necessary features in my Linux kernel. It's very strange because X.org 7.0 worked fine with the same kernel configuration.
sounds like your installation is broken, and the xkb data is either not installed, or installed in the wrong place. make sure it's in ${datadir}/X11/xkb from the server's perspective, or that you've specified --with-xkb-path to the server.
It seems like you're not right: [birdie@localhost ~]$ cd /usr/share/X11/xkb [birdie@localhost xkb]$ ls -la total 172 drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Oct 25 14:08 . drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Feb 9 01:12 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 25 14:08 compat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 974 Sep 1 16:55 compat.dir drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Oct 25 14:08 geometry -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3358 Sep 1 16:55 geometry.dir drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 25 14:08 keycodes -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3153 Sep 1 16:55 keycodes.dir drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Oct 25 14:08 keymap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14662 Sep 1 16:55 keymap.dir drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 25 14:08 rules drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 25 14:08 semantics -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 134 Sep 1 16:55 semantics.dir drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Oct 25 14:08 symbols -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25834 Sep 1 16:55 symbols.dir drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 25 14:08 types -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497 Sep 1 16:55 types.dir
your server log probably says something about 'falling back to pre-XKB keymap'. which means one of n things: xkbcomp can't be found, the server has a different path to the xkb data directory, misc, other ...
grep -i XKB /var/log/Xorg.0.log (**) Option "XkbRules" "xorg" (**) Keyboard0: XkbRules: "xorg" (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105" (**) Keyboard0: XkbModel: "pc105" (**) Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru(winkeys)" (**) Keyboard0: XkbLayout: "us,ru(winkeys)" (**) Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll" (**) Keyboard0: XkbOptions: "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
Created attachment 8818 [details] X :1 -logverbose 9 Here's a log of X.org running at maximum verbosity level.
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Hey, any more suggestions? Definitely it's not a KDE bug (because I traced it down to the only running X.org and xev). Also it's not a kernel bug (VMWare and rdesktop still can handle Win+any_key).
I'm changing this bug title, because this bug affects most X applications (except rdesktop and VMWare).
Does anyone have an idea what can be wrong?
The same happens with X server 1.3/X.org release 7.2.
The same happens with X server 1.4/X.org release 7.3.
With xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-42.fc8 and kernel 2.6.25.3 everything works fine.
Does it really disappeared, Artem? I am still facing it on Fedora 9.
Well, it still happens for me from time to time but I have managed to find a workaround and it is called $ man setxkbmap E.g. this commands restores a normal Win key behaviour for me (you can grab the options for /etc/X11/xorg.conf: $ setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout "us,ru(winkeys)" -option "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll" Cheers! P.S. It's a sad state of affairs ... the bug is almost two years old, it's a confirmed bug and no one cares.
This bug is very annoying: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14255 Since many native Linux applications crash from time to time leaving you with a wrong screen resolution. I'm quite sure it's a matter of several hours to write a deamon for X server which will keep track of resolution changes and revert back to your native resolution if the last application to change screen parameters exited abnormally.
(In reply to comment #16) > This bug is very annoying: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14255 no bug hijacking please, I fail to see what the resolution has to do with the win key bug. (In reply to comment #15) > P.S. It's a sad state of affairs ... the bug is almost two years old, it's a > confirmed bug and no one cares. no-one cares != no-one has had time to look at it yet != no-one has found the issue yet != no-one has fixed the issue yet. Anyway, could be the xkeyboard-config change to vmods. Please post the xev output when you hit left alt, r alt and win (both winkeys). Also, please attach the most recent log file you can obtain (uncompressed!). Reopening the bug - still seems to be an issue.
As soon as it happens for me again I'll post the appropriate information. I'm sorry for being offensive.
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